Brush-ax.



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V BRUSH AX. nruoumn mum NOV. 21. 1907.

914,947. r V Patented Mar. 9, i909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Sp ecification No. 914,947. of Letters Patent. Patented March 9, 1909.

Application filed. November 21, 1907. Serial No. 403,222.

T all whom it may concern: wardly to near the central point of said cut-Be it known that I, FRED HAMMERLY, a ting edge, as at 6, whence itcurves gently citizen of the United States residing at Silto its point2. The back 7 of the blade is vana, in I from its point to its heel.Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in edgeand the curvature described is such that if a brush were bent backslightly by the left the ax wielded from 8&1118.

This invention has relation to tools dei signed to out brush and briersand other growth that is liable to spring up along cut and not leaving asharp stump standing. effect, practically, would be had, too, if thehandle were manipulated with ences and newly-cleared land or where landI both hands in striking the brush as one might is left fallow for aconsiderable length of hit a golf ball, with a slight tendency to a anda new and noxious growth springs mowing action. It is easier to evadestones The tool is operated somewhat on the and the like that would dullthe tool, than principle of a pole-ax-that is by strokes on the base ofthe brush and briers as near the ground as may be done without danger ofstriking stones and so dulhng the tool.

' object of the invention to provide a blade that shall be moreefiicient than a is bent over, or straight, by striking it at to beobserved that the tool may ively used in cases where needed by drawingthe blade backward with its edge against the material to be cut.

With a little experience the tool can be used to accomplish all that canbe done by severing the brush and leaving a substan brush scythe,doingit tially short flat-top stump.

l y improvement is illustrated in the annexed drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, the same characters of reference designating thesame parts wherever they cient in heavy brushwood than What is claimedisrush-ax having a flat blade of substantially oval form in side View,having the front end pointed and the opposite end, constituting theheel, thickened, turned outwardly and provided with an eye for thereception of the handle, the cutting edge eing curved 11 carrying out myinvention I make the I somewhat abruptly downward and forward a lade asthin as m y be thought best, and of short distance from the heel, andthence substantially oval form in side view, exceptcurved forwardly lessabruptly to the point, is quite pointed at its forward end and a handlein the eye extending backward 95 2 and at its opposite end, constitutinga heel, and inclined slightly upward. 3, loutwardly, and proi Intestimony whereof, I aflix rided with an eve 4 for the reception of theu presence of two witnesses. The latter in form may resemble FREDHAMMERLY.

my signature, in

hat of a common pole-ax. I lVitnesses:

The cutting edge of the blade extends J. G. Ross, wn from the handle andis curved for-1 B. E. PADGETT.

